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The Flower of Paradise - The Institutionalized Use of the Drug Qat in North Yemen (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
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The Flower of Paradise - The Institutionalized Use of the Drug Qat in North Yemen (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
Series: Culture, Illness and Healing, 10
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This book concerns the use of the drug qat in North Yemen (Yemen
Arab Republic), a country lying on the southwestern corner of the
Arabian Peninsula. However, because this substance is so interwoven
into the fabric of society and culture, it is also necessarily
about Yemen itself. The history and culture of South Arabia are
still relatively unknown to the rest of the world, and the drug
qat, so widely used there, is equally unknown. Thus, the material
we present here should be of interest to all of those concerned
with drug use, those who wish to understand more about Yemen and
the Middle East, and to the Yemenis themselves. Another purpose is
to develop some general understandings about sub stance uses and
their effects which are less clouded by the mass hysteria and
political considerations which often obscure drug issues in our own
society. Examination of drug-use patterns in a country where
millions of people are users on a regular basis, and where there
has been familiarity with the drug for several hundred years,
offers an opportunity to achieve perspectives not possible in
countries with different attitudes and without such histories. I am
not sanguine about the prospects of our abilities to learn from
others or from the past, but I do not think we should abandon hope
of doing so."
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